You reached the combinator, collected $ 20 million from A16Z, and then went out to the finish? I think it’s cool. But did Soham Parekh submit a request to work during the startup?
There is now a recent badge of honor for the founders of the startups: your closeness to one previously unknown Indian software engineer named Soham Parekh.
Anna Delvey from the Silicon Valley was published on Wednesday, when the former CEO of Mixpanel Suhail Dosi published on X to warn other founders about Parekh.
“Dog: There is a guy named Soham Parekh (in India), who works simultaneously at 3-4 startups. Keep on YC companies and not only. Be careful”, Doshi wrote. “I slowed down this guy in the first week and told him to stop lying/deceived people. He didn’t stop a year later.”
Now the post has over 20 million views, and the founders and investors from the entire technology industry weighed. And before Andy Jassa asks – can or not it’s avoided if more firms return to the office? No, some people are just bad managers.
According to Doshi, at least three founders reached out to say that they released or currently employed Parekh.
In the era of the subreddit community, resembling R/macro -keptWhere members talk about how one can escape from many distant works at the same time, the revelation is not so surprising. It is more interesting how different the answers to his actions are (to be honest, no one has ever said that the technology industry was known for moral fiber).
For some, in the technology community, Parek has the creation of a folk hero, stunning well -financed startups and holding him to man. For others, he is an immoral liar who fucked up startups and took a job from individuals who would actually do his best. Many are impressed by how he managed to go through so many notoriously competitive interview processes, while others think he should put quarter-hour of fame to start out his own startup.
“If Soham is clean and says that he worked on the AI agent training to work, he raises $ 100 million before the weekend”, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box wrote on X.
Chris Bakke-Member Laskie, a platform for matching work acquired by the X-”Understand that Soham should accept his popularity.
“Soham Parekh must set up a company preparing a conversation. It is clearly one of the greatest internships,” wrote Bakke. “He should publicly admit that he did something bad and run, which is in the first 1%.”
Meanwhile, Garry Tan, general director of Y Combinator, took the opportunity to pat on the back.
“Without the community, this guy will continue to work and maybe he would never be caught,” wrote Tan. “The YC startup guild is an indispensable invention that helps the founders greater success than themselves.”
Why did he do that? Porek says that it was not a part of a great plan, “he claims that he had no plan at all and he quickly tried to earn a lot of cash to get out of a bad financial situation.
“I really didn’t think about it,” said Parekh in an interview with TBPN. “It was an action that was made more desperation.”
Parekh didn’t deal with Doshi’s accusation that the majority of his CVs were false.
“You know, some of them are funny,” he said. “I am very new on Twitter. Yesterday I joined Twitter, so it was a lesson for me in social media.” (Of course, Twitter has long been generally known as X.)
You don’t have to convey it to him, but he is a pretty good poster for someone who was on the platform for one day. One of his few posts was the answer to the co -founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman, who asked what they think could be the LinkedIn Parekha headline.
“I don’t have LinkedIn”, Parekh replied.
For what is value, his header X is on money, even if LinkedIn does not trouble. This is meme Flynn Rider from the Disney movie “Tangled”-a guy guy who intends to provide a controversial opinion, surrounded by knives from all sides.